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Stamps, coins and beer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Tony Gardiner
Tony Gardiner*
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There are numerous arithmetical puzzles concerning the quantities of beer that can be measured if the only available measures are a 3-pint jug and a 5-pint jug, or the exact amounts of money obtainable using only 3p and 5p coins, or the amounts that can be made with only 3p and 5p stamps.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 65 , Issue 434 , December 1981 , pp. 239 - 244
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1981

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